The article is devoted to coverage of Ukrainian-Russian military conflict in American, German and... more The article is devoted to coverage of Ukrainian-Russian military conflict in American, German and Ukrainian political cartoons. Political cartoon is the subject of many different disciplines. From the linguistic point of view the political cartoon is a "creolized text" ("multimodal text" or "hybrid text"). The perception of creolized text is a double decoding of information: at the visual level (symbols, visual metaphors) and at the verbal level (captions, phrases of cartoon's characters). This double decoding provides the integral perception of the cartoon. Political cartoon combines different cultural codes to implement cognitive and communicative purposes, using a minimum of verbal and non-verbal means. The discursive modus of the conflict was analyzed by using of quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, frame analysis, metaphor analysis). This combination of methods provides objective and reliable research results.
This article integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and pro... more This article integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and proposes a multimodal analysis of the discursive dimension of the Russian–Ukrainian war and its implementation in political humour. The author analyses the distribution of supportive/subversive humour in world, Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons targeting Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin and representing the conflict parties, with special attention to the presentation/setting. The distribution of supportive vs subversive political humour is based on an analysis of the target, focus and setting of political cartoons depicting Putin and Zelensky, and on the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in the cartoons. Political cartoons can be defined by their goals, frames of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus, means-setting) as well as the correlation between self-image/external image and supportive/subver...
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the discursive dimension of the standoff between supporte... more The paper is devoted to the analysis of the discursive dimension of the standoff between supporters of 6th Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and those of his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. This dimension is implemented in Internet memes as one of the forms of political satire. Memes can be defined by their goals, frame of reference and means. The discursive practices used in memes aiming at the symbolic defamation of a political opponent and his electoral base are considered, taking into account the target, the focus, and the presentation of political satire about the protagonists Zelensky and Poroshenko. The corresponding parameters (goal-target, frame of reference-focus, means-presentation) constitute the analytical framework for the examination of the interrelations between political participation, political humour, political satire, and political discourse in this paper.
The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They a... more The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They are forms of political humour and can be examined in an interdisciplinary manner. The first part describes theoretical aspects, functions, and elements of political humour and political satire, main features and types of cartoons and memes. In the second part, the corpus of 198 political cartoons and 1121 memes from March 2019 to December 2020 is analysed with computer-aided content analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. The analysis units are social context, formed by the domestic and foreign political events in Ukraine in the research period, joke techniques and communication levels in the cartoons and memes. These units are examined chronologically and thematically. The research is based on the hypothesis about the interdependence of social context and subversive/supportive humour in the construction of Zelensky’s image.
The Experience of Designing and Application of CAD Systems in Microelectronics, 2003. CADSM 2003. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference.
In this paper, the concept of "content analysis" and its history are analyzed and the m... more In this paper, the concept of "content analysis" and its history are analyzed and the main applications of computer-based content analysis are defined. On the basis of comparisons of both types, their advantages and shortcomings were shown.
The paper is devoted to terminological, typological and discursive dimension of concepts describi... more The paper is devoted to terminological, typological and discursive dimension of concepts describing modern conflicts. Historical development of concept “war” is retraced including four generations of warfare. Difficulties in establishing a methodological framework for analyzing the media coverage of military conflicts are analyzed and an interdisciplinary approach to the media coverage of military conflicts is proposed. This enables the integration of different theories - international relations, conflict studies, political communication and journalism. Two dimensions of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict (physical and discursive) are desribed. In the physical dimension, the conflict is localized. The discursive dimension of the conflict is implemented at the global, interstate (Russian-Ukrainian) and local (intra-Ukrainian) levels. Discursive understanding of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict was investigated on local level. The object of analysis was coverage of the con...
In this paper we outline the key features of discourse analysis, contrast it with content analysi... more In this paper we outline the key features of discourse analysis, contrast it with content analysis, and then consider the extent to which these two methods can be seen as either complementary to, or in conflict with, each other. Our underlying premise is pluralist in that while we recognize that these two methods are based in very different philosophical camps and play very different roles in social science research, we also believe that they can be seen as complementary and even mutually supportive in the exploration of social reality. Furthermore, given the recent "linguistic turn" in social science and the related increasing interest in the study of texts of various kinds, the contrast between these two methods provides a particularly useful context in which to discuss assumptions about the nature of language and the role of linguistic methods in social research.
The article is devoted to coverage of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in American, German and... more The article is devoted to coverage of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in American, German and Ukrainian political cartoons. Political cartoon is the subject of many different disciplines. From the linguistic point of view the political cartoon is a «сreolized text». («multimodal text» or «hybrid text»). The perception of creolized text is a double decoding of information: at the visual level (symbols, visual metaphors) and at the verbal level (captions, phrases of cartoon's characters). This double-decoding provides the integral perception of the cartoon. Political cartoon combines different cultural codes to implement cognitive and communicative purposes, using a minimum of verbal and non-verbal means. The discursive modus of the conflict was analyzed by using of quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, frame analysis, metaphor analysis). This combination of methods provide objective and reliable research results.
The article is devoted to coverage of Ukrainian-Russian military conflict in American, German and... more The article is devoted to coverage of Ukrainian-Russian military conflict in American, German and Ukrainian political cartoons. Political cartoon is the subject of many different disciplines. From the linguistic point of view the political cartoon is a "creolized text" ("multimodal text" or "hybrid text"). The perception of creolized text is a double decoding of information: at the visual level (symbols, visual metaphors) and at the verbal level (captions, phrases of cartoon's characters). This double decoding provides the integral perception of the cartoon. Political cartoon combines different cultural codes to implement cognitive and communicative purposes, using a minimum of verbal and non-verbal means. The discursive modus of the conflict was analyzed by using of quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, frame analysis, metaphor analysis). This combination of methods provides objective and reliable research results.
This article integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and pro... more This article integrates national and international levels of political humorous discourse and proposes a multimodal analysis of the discursive dimension of the Russian–Ukrainian war and its implementation in political humour. The author analyses the distribution of supportive/subversive humour in world, Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons targeting Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin and representing the conflict parties, with special attention to the presentation/setting. The distribution of supportive vs subversive political humour is based on an analysis of the target, focus and setting of political cartoons depicting Putin and Zelensky, and on the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in the cartoons. Political cartoons can be defined by their goals, frames of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus, means-setting) as well as the correlation between self-image/external image and supportive/subver...
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the discursive dimension of the standoff between supporte... more The paper is devoted to the analysis of the discursive dimension of the standoff between supporters of 6th Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and those of his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. This dimension is implemented in Internet memes as one of the forms of political satire. Memes can be defined by their goals, frame of reference and means. The discursive practices used in memes aiming at the symbolic defamation of a political opponent and his electoral base are considered, taking into account the target, the focus, and the presentation of political satire about the protagonists Zelensky and Poroshenko. The corresponding parameters (goal-target, frame of reference-focus, means-presentation) constitute the analytical framework for the examination of the interrelations between political participation, political humour, political satire, and political discourse in this paper.
The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They a... more The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They are forms of political humour and can be examined in an interdisciplinary manner. The first part describes theoretical aspects, functions, and elements of political humour and political satire, main features and types of cartoons and memes. In the second part, the corpus of 198 political cartoons and 1121 memes from March 2019 to December 2020 is analysed with computer-aided content analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. The analysis units are social context, formed by the domestic and foreign political events in Ukraine in the research period, joke techniques and communication levels in the cartoons and memes. These units are examined chronologically and thematically. The research is based on the hypothesis about the interdependence of social context and subversive/supportive humour in the construction of Zelensky’s image.
The Experience of Designing and Application of CAD Systems in Microelectronics, 2003. CADSM 2003. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference.
In this paper, the concept of "content analysis" and its history are analyzed and the m... more In this paper, the concept of "content analysis" and its history are analyzed and the main applications of computer-based content analysis are defined. On the basis of comparisons of both types, their advantages and shortcomings were shown.
The paper is devoted to terminological, typological and discursive dimension of concepts describi... more The paper is devoted to terminological, typological and discursive dimension of concepts describing modern conflicts. Historical development of concept “war” is retraced including four generations of warfare. Difficulties in establishing a methodological framework for analyzing the media coverage of military conflicts are analyzed and an interdisciplinary approach to the media coverage of military conflicts is proposed. This enables the integration of different theories - international relations, conflict studies, political communication and journalism. Two dimensions of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict (physical and discursive) are desribed. In the physical dimension, the conflict is localized. The discursive dimension of the conflict is implemented at the global, interstate (Russian-Ukrainian) and local (intra-Ukrainian) levels. Discursive understanding of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict was investigated on local level. The object of analysis was coverage of the con...
In this paper we outline the key features of discourse analysis, contrast it with content analysi... more In this paper we outline the key features of discourse analysis, contrast it with content analysis, and then consider the extent to which these two methods can be seen as either complementary to, or in conflict with, each other. Our underlying premise is pluralist in that while we recognize that these two methods are based in very different philosophical camps and play very different roles in social science research, we also believe that they can be seen as complementary and even mutually supportive in the exploration of social reality. Furthermore, given the recent "linguistic turn" in social science and the related increasing interest in the study of texts of various kinds, the contrast between these two methods provides a particularly useful context in which to discuss assumptions about the nature of language and the role of linguistic methods in social research.
The article is devoted to coverage of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in American, German and... more The article is devoted to coverage of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in American, German and Ukrainian political cartoons. Political cartoon is the subject of many different disciplines. From the linguistic point of view the political cartoon is a «сreolized text». («multimodal text» or «hybrid text»). The perception of creolized text is a double decoding of information: at the visual level (symbols, visual metaphors) and at the verbal level (captions, phrases of cartoon's characters). This double-decoding provides the integral perception of the cartoon. Political cartoon combines different cultural codes to implement cognitive and communicative purposes, using a minimum of verbal and non-verbal means. The discursive modus of the conflict was analyzed by using of quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, frame analysis, metaphor analysis). This combination of methods provide objective and reliable research results.
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